unbuscride plz -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Leon Brooks Sent: 29 mai, 2002 21:19 To: Mandrake Cooker List Subject: Re: [Cooker] My suggestions for Mandrake 9.0
On Thursday 30 May 2002 08:01, Timothy R. Butler wrote: > 1.) How about replacing bootsplash with a modified version of Aurora? Urgh. Something else, please... if I was going to have a boot problem with a machine, Aurora would do it. It choked fairly consistently on Kudzu and HardDrake, for example. The current text-in-a-window looks sort of graphic and controlled, and the progress bar is an excellent idea. How difficult would it be to offer an alternative that showed an array of shaded icons and either unshaded them if they start or put an X through them if they don't? Putting the actual startup text on the display in fine print would somewhere with a `zoom' option to return to something like the current display would be good. I don't know how much work is involved in this, but I suspect that stuff like the icons already exists for most packages. > 3.) Rethink the "Importance" ratings included on packages during the > installation. I've noticed sometimes games and multimedia stuff have been > marked "Very Important" while some much more useful (for the business > desktop) stuff has received "Nice" or "Important" ratings instead. The only satisfying solution I can see for this would be to have *sets* of ratings for different interests, say `server', `workstation' and `gamestation'. > 5.) What about a QT/KDE-based MCC? Since Mandrake has always been very > pro-KDE, and even was founded to bring KDE to RedHat, what about making > Mandrake Control Center QT-ized? Only if you could do it without *breaking* it for Gnome, BlackBox etc. Gnome is useful in specific situations above and beyond its popularity, and `light' WMs like BlackBox are extremely useful in low-resource situations like large LTSP classrooms. > 6.) Modified KPackage for optional package manager. KPackage includes the > stuff necessary to make it work with apt-get (i.e. for searching for > available packages, updating packages, etc.). What about modifying it to > work with URPMI too? It's a pretty slick little tool, and it would be nice > to have it work with Mandrake's package management system. Agree. > 7.) Less confusing Time Zones. At least when installing from the US, > selecting a time zone can be a bit confusing IMO. For instance, rather then > having the names we normally use for time zones, the most obvious choice > for "Central Time" is picking the locality Chicago (even though I don't > live there and that is not a standard way of referring to this time zone). > What about naming the US time zones correctly? Maybe even ordering time > zones based on their differential from UTC? There is an Etc timezone group with GMT+/-## zones in it. Perhaps a separate US group for major zones rather than specific cities, or if the menuing system can handle it easily, split the US into by-city and by-zone? > I noticed YaST2 now has a thingy that will grab sound > fonts off the the Creative Labs SB Live! installation CD. This is a nice, > user friendly touch... Hmmm... and how legal would it be to scrape TTFs out of MS-Windows or MS-Office CDs? > For instance, imagine this: > The box has the Mandrake logo white washed in the background of the cover > (on both sides). On top of that in a shadded area, about 2/3 of the way > down is the words in a slightly wide-spaced italic san-serif font "Mandrake > Linux" and then in smaller letters below it aligned right, "PowerPack" or > "Standard Edition." Above the title could be a smaller version of the > Mandrake logo (not white washed) with beams of light coming out from behind > it. Finally the MandrakeSoft name in it's normal font could go on the top > right side of the front of the box. > On the back, you could have one large screenshot (maybe with a width > about 2/3 of the box and a height of 1/3) of a nicely working Mandrake > desktop aligned right, with a few paragraphs talking about all the great > stuff in Mandrake Linux. About half way through the paragraphs the text > would wrap around the bottom of the image and go all the way across the > width of the box. Below that you could have the usual array of logos in a > slightly shaded bar (transparent, so you can still see the white washed > Mandrake logo), and then below that maybe a two or three column area with > the current back of the box text (i.e. listings of packages). Uh, `you've had a *lot* of time to plan this, haven't you?' (-: Cheers; Leon
